Ground Zero church still waits to rebuild

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of 9/11, RNS’s Friday report includes a story about a church in New York still waiting to rebuild. Kim Lawton of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly reports that the historic St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at the foot of the South Tower of the World Trade Center was destroyed, […]

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of 9/11, RNS’s Friday report includes a story about a church in New York still waiting to rebuild. Kim Lawton of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly reports that the historic St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at the foot of the South Tower of the World Trade Center was destroyed, and four years later, parishioners are still waiting to rebuild the church, a congregation of about 70 families but with a much wider ministry in New York’s Wall Street financial district. Greek immigrants acquired the property, built in the 19th century, in the early1920s and turned it into a home for their fledgling congregation. The congregation’s president says some of his earliest childhood memories are of attending Holy Week services at the church with his grandfather, a founder of the congregation.

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